Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to a small triumph; he has pierced the protective shell of a boy's personality and exposed the religious exaltation of the boy without once falling into bathos. During the watch in the chapel, Richard's deepest thoughts and feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings: he is kneeling, and his knees and back hurt, disturbing the purity of his devotions; he remembers his silly effort at self-mortification through eating worms; he imagines himself upon the cross and hearing the school's best athlete whisper, "Jesus that kid's got guts...
David Smith's first sculpture was a mud lion which he patted together when he was five. At 45, he has put away childish things, makes abstract steel things with the help of an oxyacetylene torch and gas welding. The results, on view in a Manhattan gallery last week, struck one critic as being "about the most original, the most imaginative and most vital [sculpture] being done in the country today...
...best, but it is musicomedy at its most charming. Distance lends enchantment doubly-in time as well as space-to the story of an English widow who went to Siam in the 1860s to act as governess to the King's large brood, and found her most eager, childish and unruly pupil in the King himself...
...ready for her mission, she stripped herself of all distracting joys, including Richard Milnes, "the man I adored." The diary passage that sums up the renunciation: 'Today I am 30-the age Christ began his mission. Now no more childish things. No more love. No more marriage. Now, Lord, let me think only of Thy Will, what Thou wiliest me to^do. Oh Lord Thy Will, Thy Will...
Morris doodles profusely, then puts each doodle out of sight to cool for weeks or months. Now & then he thumbs through them, picks one as the basis for a painting. His problem is to keep the childish freedom and directness of the first sketch while enriching it with color and emphasizing what it means to him. The Doctors carries a typical message: each of the three doctors is alone, they cannot agree on what is wrong with the patient the patient is also alone and without hope...